How to make a USB flash drive bootable?

[xizor]

I want to make a bootable flash drive on a WinXP system. I read that you can format any drive and make it bootable w/ Win9x's format.exe but I don't have that option. Any pointers?

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[PrincessGuard]

I wrote a utility that does it, as long as the partition is FAT16. You need to have the Win9x boot files IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, and COMMAND.COM (copy them off a bootdisk) in the same folder.

http://www.chenmail.com/sys.exe (source at http://www.chenmail.com/win2ksys.cpp , compiled with MinGW).

Just format the drive normally, then do sys x:, where X is the drive letter of your USB drive.

 

[xizor]

nevermind, i figured it out. Here's a link to the boot files for anyone else

http://www.powerload.fsnet.co.uk/bootdisk.htm